Maybe it’s too soon to be talking about Andrew Cuomo as a candidate for president. After all, there are so many things that can happen between now and 2016 that would complicate his, or anyone’s, nomination prospects. (What effect does it have, for example, if the current president gets re-elected?)

But if we’re indulging in hypothetical scenarios, a question that’s just as interesting as whether Cuomo can win the nomination and the general is the matter of what kind of president he’d actually be once he got to the White House.

Cuomo’s hands-on style of management has served him perfectly well as governor so far, but it’s not clear that such a way of running things is transferable to the presidency. Cuomo’s inner circle of aides and advisers, by definition, isn’t scalable, and apparently they’re the only people Cuomo trusts to make any decisions, really, about anything.

The background sources in an interesting Crain’s story from over the weekend about the running of the executive branch predict that eventually, good people in the administration who are outside the inner circle will grow tired of being on such a short leash and they’ll quit. That may or may not turn out to be true, and Cuomo, whose approval ratings are still very healthy, may or may not care anyway.

It’s sort of a logical sequel to a previous piece written by a Buzzfeed editor. [Ben Smith]

A centrist Democrat reacts: “For the people this sort of crap is written about, it probably provides a few laughs, a nice blurb to help boost the fees they command in their future lobbying or consulting jobs, and maybe a little intimidation of the Other Team. “ [Ed Kilgore]